Vaporizer and separator.



G. A. RUSH.

VAPORIZEB AND SEPARATOR.

APPLIGATION FILED MAY 2'7, 1908.

Patented May 1 1911.

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CHARLES A. RUSH, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

VAPOBIZER AND SEPARA'IOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May at, rear.

Application filed May 27, 1908. Serial No. 435,244.

those skilled in the art to construct and use the same. 7

This invention relates to a gasolene vaporizer and separator, a portion of which may also be used as a steam separator either at the feed or at the exhaust end of a steam engine.

An object of the invention is to prevent the gasolene from passing to theengine without being atomized, and to provide means for the complete atomization and vaporiza tion. or that which does passto the engine, where the device is used on anexplosion engine.

Another object of the invention is to provide means for regulating the supply of air that passes to the' engine when the gasolene is being vaporized.

In the drawings in which the same numera of reference is applied to the same part throughout, Figure 1 is a plan view of the device partly in section through the separator and partly through the gasolene tank, Fig. 2 is a vertical central section through the complete device.

The numeral. 1 is applied tolthe supply pipe at the top of the tank 2, said supply pipe having a valve seat 1t its end. ltn the tank 2 there is a float 3 which moves up and down as the supply of gasolene increases or diminishes, guides 4 and 5 being provided for the float and a guide 5 being provided for the needle valve 6 carried by the float. The bottom of the tank 2 is formed of a conical portion7 and a cylindrical portion 8, the cylindrical portion extending out the top of the tank 2 and being connected'to the separating drum 9, to which latter the pipe leading to the engine is connected. At the bottom of the tank 2 there are three pipes 10 leading to a centrally placed valve 11 having the valve stem 12. Extending vertically from this valve there is a pipe 13 which extends above the top of the gasolene in the tank, in order that the same may not w Secured within the conical portion of the bottom of the tank are three shell like leaves 14 each one indicated by a different numeral 14 on Fig. l, and of which two are shown below the r voluble separator 20 which are hinged to t e bottom of the tank at 15, and controlled by springs 16, said springs having one end secured to a pin 16 and the opposite end secured to the part of the hinge attached to the plate 14 for the purpose of holding the leaves closely together, as shown. The leaves are or": such a shape that they may be moved considerably without producing a very large opening at their sides, the intention being to so shape them that when in the position shown in the drawing almost all the air passing through the carbureter will pass near the mouth of the pipe 13. When the engine is running fast the tendency will be for it to require a larger amount of air and fuel and the pressure of the moving air on the leaves will cause them to open a small amount at their top, thus permltting the inlet of a larger supply of air and as the amount of air increases the amount of gas that will be drawn from the tube increase.

Just below the separating drum 9, and at the top or" the pipe 8 there is secured a spider 17 and in the pipe 18 leadingto the engine there is another spider 19. Journaled in the spiders is the revol-uble separator 20 which is made up of a series of blades 21 the ,entire set forming a substantially spherical body carried by the shaft 22. This shaft PIOJGCtS out of the pipe 18 at the elbow by the passage ofthe air will thereof, and it has securedto its end the I pulley 23 for the purpose of driving the separator.

The separator drum is heart shape in cross section and has a pipe 24 leading from its lowest portion to the tank 2, a check valve drum and as soon as it gets in the low portion thereof it will run back into the supply tank 2. The check valve between the gaso lene supply tank 2,and the drum 9 is intended to close when there is a lower pressure of air inthe drum 9 than in the tank, but;

as soon as the pressures in the tank and drum are equal the valve will open and permit any ga'solene that may be thrown outwardly from the fan 21 to pass back into the gasolene tank. Such periods of equal pressure will occur often enough-t0 permit the return 0t eny gesolene that may pass over into the drum 9 from the teeel pipe 13..

Having thus clescribecl my invention what 1 claim. as new end desire to secure by Letters Patent oi the Unitefi States is as follows:

1., in e geseieiie "vaporizer, the eembinetion of e tenh having an air channel therethrough, e gesolene stipply ipe leading from the bottom of the tank to e point near the center of the air channel overlapping leeves in seidl air channei erlaptecl tc regulete the amount of air passing therethrough, e. rotary sepereterin the air channel, and means te return unveporized geselehe to the supply terik as set forth.

2.. in e geselene vaperizer, t e combine tieri e gsisolerle supply tank herring an air @hflillfi'ci therethreugh, meeris to maintain the retor drum in the air channel, a rotary separator therein, and means to return unreporized gasoleiie to the supply tank, as set :tcrth.

in testimony whereof 1i heve set my hand this 16th oley of May A. D. 1998, in the presence of" the two subscribed Witnesses,

steers A. sees Witr esses:

W. 'l. Hess, ALEX Germs, 

